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• Feds roll out another $20 million in rural funding grants for Alaska - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-10-2015 22:00
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  Feds roll out another $20 million in rural funding grants for Alaska
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  WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is sending more than $20 million to help with heating, transportation and other needs in rural areas as part of funding announced by three federal agencies in the last week. Rural communities in Alaska will get $2 ...and more »
  

• Urban Rez – Explores Controversial Relocation Program

  31-10-2015 21:00
  URBAN REZ  explores the controversial legacy and modern-day repercussions of the Urban Relocation Program (1952-1973), the greatest voluntary upheaval of Native Americans during the 20th century.
  During the documentary, dozens of American Indians representing tribal groups from across the West recall their first-hand experiences with relocation, including the early hardships, struggles with isolation and racism.
  Interviewees also speak about the challenges of maintaining one’s own tri
  
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• Trio of Alaska ports lead nation in fish landings - Alaska Dispatch News

  31-10-2015 05:17
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  Trio of Alaska ports lead nation in fish landings
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  Below deck on the Arctic Hunter, workers from Westward Seafood unload snow crab at the dock in Dutch Harbor. Steve Ringman. Once again, Alaska claimed the top three fishing ports for landings last year. “The Alaska port of Dutch Harbor continued to ...
  Report: New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Dutch Harbor, Alaska, remain top US ...Daily Journalall 47 news articles »
  

• Wild Eyes: Florian Schulz points his lens at the Arctic

  31-10-2015 03:15
  “Curious grizzly investigates a unfamiliar shape as it patrols the edge of the Canning River, Arctic Refuge, Alaskan Arctic” (Photo courtesy of Florian Schulz and the Anchorage Museum)
  Few people are willing to camp out at -30 for days at a time in order to get the perfect photograph of a polar bear feasting on whale bones. But an exhibit at the Anchorage Museum is showcasing wild works made with exceptionally radical methods.
  “What we see here is three bull musk oxen outside o
  
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• Alaska News Nightly: Friday, Oct. 30, 2015

  31-10-2015 02:38
  
  
  Stories are posted on the APRN news page. You can subscribe to APRN’s newsfeeds via email, podcast and RSS. Follow us on Facebook at alaskapublic.org and on Twitter @aprn.Download Audio
   
  Anchorage School Board won’t renew superintendent’s contract
  Anne Hillman, KSKA – Anchorage
  The Anchorage School Board will not renew the district superintendent’s contract next year.
  Arctic coast guards team up, Russia i
  
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• Anchorage School Board won’t renew superintendent’s contract

  31-10-2015 02:36
  
  
  Anchorage School District Superintendent Ed Graff speaks with reporters. (Photo by Josh Edge, APRN – Anchorage)
  The Anchorage School Board will not renew the district superintendent’s contract next year. Ed Graff will stay on until the end of June 2016, and the search for a new superintendent will start immediately.
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  School Board President Kameron Perez-Verdia said the board has been discussing Graff’s contract renewal for about five months. It was originally set
  
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• Senate majority wants exit plan for TransCanada; Walker says he’s got it

  31-10-2015 02:35
  
  
  As the legislature closes out the first week of its special session on the Alaska LNG gas line project, there’s one question in the air — what’s the hold up?
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  That’s because lawmakers appear to agree on the one major issue on the table: buying out TransCanada, and taking a larger stake in the project.
  But Republican leaders in the House say they’re not yet ready to take a vote — and they won’t be until they’re convinced the state has
  
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• Lawmakers want exit plan for TransCanada; Walker says he’s got it

  31-10-2015 02:35
  
  
  As the legislature closes out the first week of its special session on the Alaska LNG gas line project, there’s one question in the air — what’s the hold up?
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  That’s because lawmakers appear to agree on the one major issue on the table: buying out TransCanada, and taking a larger stake in the project.
  But Republican leaders in the House say they’re not yet ready to take a vote — and they won’t be until they’re convinced the state has
  
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• Lawmakers ask, who’s in charge of gas line? Walker says, I am

  31-10-2015 02:35
  
  
  As the legislature closes out the first week of its special session on the Alaska LNG gas line project, there’s one question in the air — what’s the hold up?
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  That’s because lawmakers appear to agree on the one major issue on the table: buying out TransCanada, and taking a larger stake in the project.
  But Republican leaders in the House say they’re not yet ready to take a vote — and they won’t be until they’re convinced the state has
  
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• Arctic coast guards team up, Russia included

  31-10-2015 02:34
  
  
  Photo: USCG.
  The head of the U.S. Coast Guard met today with his counterparts from seven other northern nations to create the Arctic Coast Guard Forum, at a signing ceremony in New London, Conn. The forum is intended to help pool resources when life, limb or the Arctic environment are in danger. But perhaps the most significant feature of today’s event was Russia’s presence.
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  The new Coast Guard alliance has the same membership roster as the Arctic Council: Canada,
  
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• Senators grounded while Sec. Carter visits state without them

  31-10-2015 02:33
  
  
  A disappointed Sen. Murkowski in an image from her video.
  Alaska’s two U.S. senators were supposed to be at Fort Wainwright today with Defense Secretary Ash Carter. Instead, due to mechanical troubles, they were reduced to making videos describing what they would have said, if they’d had the opportunity to talk to him about keeping troops at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.
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  Sen. Lisa Murkowski filmed hers from an unadorned office cubicle.
  
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• 2 jailhouse informants say Fairbanks 4 talked on crime

  31-10-2015 02:32
  
  
  Members of the Fairbanks Four made incriminating statements in jail. That’s according to two men who served time with George Frese, Kevin Pease, Marvin Roberts and Eugene Vent, the men known as the Fairbanks Four, challenging their convictions for the October 1997 beating death of John Hartman.
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  John Hartman’s older brother Chris Kelly testified Thursday at an ongoing post-conviction relief hearing for the Fairbanks Four. Kelly recounted confronting one of the men convi
  
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• Staffer honored for thwarting would-be school shooter in Newtok

  31-10-2015 02:31
  
  
  The Lower Kuskokwim School District Board of Education, in their Friday morning meeting, recognized Harry Nevak for his role in stopping a school shooting attempt in his Southwestern Alaska Village of Newtok.
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  Forty-five-year-old Harry Nevak is the on-site technician for the Ayaprun school in Newtok. He says he was on his way to work on the morning of September 11, when he noticed a former student, nearby the school. Nevak says the teenager was holding
  
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• Standing on Sacred Ground: Ecological Wisdom and Spiritual Reverence

  31-10-2015 00:36
  In this four-part documentary series STANDING ON NATIVE GROUND, native people share ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence while battling a utilitarian view of land in the form of government megaprojects, consumer culture, and resource extraction as well as competing religions and climate change. Narrated by Graham Greene, with the voices of Tantoo Cardinal and Q’orianka Kilcher, the series exposes threats to native peoples’ health, livelihood, and cultural survival in eight
  
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• November 2015 Television Highlights: The Pilgrims; Standing on Sacred Ground

  31-10-2015 00:24
  Mayflower II at sail in Plymouth Harbor. (Photo courtesy of Kristen Oney / Plimoth Plantation)
  Discover the harrowing and brutal truths behind the Pilgrims’ arrival in the New World and the myths of Thanksgiving in this documentary film by director Ric Burns. AMERICAN EXPERIENCE – THE PILGRIMS explores the history of our nation’s beginnings in this epic tale of converging forces.
  Tuesday, November 24. 7:00 p.m.
  Other highlights for November include:
  Urban Rez. Monday, Nove
  
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• New grave marker honors early Anchorage fire chief

  31-10-2015 00:12
  This year marks Anchorage’s centennial, and on Thursday, as part of that celebration, city firemen gathered to honor the muni’s very first paid fire chief.  The story behind the man who helped create many of the muni’s most enduring traditions is an intriguing one.
  Photo: Ellen Lockyer/KSKA.
  Thomas Bevers arrived in Anchorage in the days when the community was expanding beyond it’s tent city beginnings. Records show he came from Virginia, and no doubt immediately set
  
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• Nancy Lake State Recreation Area

  31-10-2015 00:00
  Nancy Lake State Recreation Area is 23,000 acres of boreal forest and more than 100 lakes to explore less than 90 minutes from downtown Anchorage. On this edition of Outdoor Explorer, we’ll share two trips to the Nancy Lake system. We recorded the first half of the show in a canoe on an end-of-season overnight paddle. In the second half, we’ll talk about skating. You can’t do it every year, but when you can it is amazing.
  HOST: Charles Wohlforth
  GUESTS: 
  Steve Ge
  
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